Morning 1, 2, 3

* Feeling a Bay Area-themed October in May: The Giants are on pace to win 106 games this season and the ESPN playoff odds predictor gives them a 91.8% chance of making the playoffs. The A’s are on pace to win 97 games this season and their ESPN playoff odds are 95.6%. Next up in the ESPN odds: Detroit, at 70.3%.

The A’s have also scored the most runs in baseball (279) and given up the fewest (175). That ought to be impossible.

1–So what’s Klay Thompson worth?

On the open market: A lot. That’s what I’m hearing from various NBA sources, as Thompson and the Warriors set up talks for his rookie-deal extension this summer.

If Thompson continues on his current pace of performance and finds himself hitting free agency any time soon, he’d be a monster commodity, possibly drawing multiple offers near or at the max for his service time. (Think: Eric Gordon a few years ago.)

On the trade market: Maybe even more.

Which presents a situation that could be very complicated for the Warriors… or very easy… depending on how they approach Thompson’s true value in the balance of their roster and salary structure.

1–Al Davis would’ve never, ever, ever have given up a home date for an international game.

I understand the reasons why the Raiders just agreed to do exactly that next season–along with Atlanta and Jacksonville, the Raiders will “host” a game in London in 2014, the NFL just announced, which means all three teams will have only 7 true home games in 2014.

The NFL usually guarantees the “home” teams the equivalent of the money from a regular home sellout, so teams (like the Raiders) that aren’t sure they actually can get sellouts are more likely to accept the cash guarantee and take the home designation in London.

Therefore, the teams that usually lose the dates are the weaker teams, or at least the ones with the weakest ticket bases, and giving up the home game further weakens the base and the cycle goes on. You don’t want to be in that cycle, but sometimes the cash is the cash.

-Quick run through of some thoughts on 3 of the 4 Bay Area teams that played simultaneously last night, and ALL WON…

1–Tim Lincecum, as always, is the third rail of Giants-dom. Talk about him in any analytical way, and the franchise might try to electrocute you.

Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean don’t seem to like it at all when Lincecum’s starts are put under the microscope, and REALLY don’t like it when Bochy re-arranges the line-up–due to ONLY coincidental reasons, naturally–so that Buster Posey isn’t catching him and we wonder why.

The Giants’ overt twitchiness on the subject, of course, means I’ll follow it even more. Sorry, guys!

So much going on today (and tomorrow and the next day and the next...) , and yet I was at none of it–rested, you could say, for later chaos, with an eye on the A’s in case they got into clinch territory today.

1–No A’s clinching happened because Tampa Bay and the Angels both won (with the Angels playing the second game of their double-header in Texas right now); meanwhile, the A’s also won and remain just on the brink of the postseason.

The A’s magic number on the Angels dropped to 2 (again, with the Angels playing now) and the A’s magic number on Tampa Bay is 1.